# Security Engineer at Cyera

- Company: Cyera
- What the company does: Cyera is an AI-native data security platform that helps enterprises discover, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and AI environments. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.cyera.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY, United States
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $80K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://www.comeet.com/jobs/cyera/17.008/security-engineer/51.748
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cyera-security-engineer/

## About the role

Join our team as a Security Engineer working within an agentic SOC environment. This role is designed for someone who is ready to grow beyond traditional analyst responsibilities and move deeper into security engineering, automation, cloud security, detection engineering, and AI-assisted security operations.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 2–3 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, security engineering, cloud security, detection engineering, or incident response
- AWS Knowledge: Working knowledge of AWS services, cloud security fundamentals, logging, monitoring, IAM, and basic cloud architecture
- AWS Certification: AWS entry-level certification required at minimum, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Security Specialty is a plus
- Python Proficiency: Hands-on proficiency with Python for scripting, automation, data processing, security tooling, or workflow development
- SIEM Experience: Experience working with SIEM platforms, including log ingestion, parsing, alerting, dashboards, and detection logic
- Log Pipeline Experience: Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting log flows from applications, infrastructure, AWS services, endpoint tools, or security platforms into a SIEM

Tags: Security